I know this isn’t a functional rubric for anyone whose output has been as prolific as Martin Wallace’s, but I mentally sort his games into two broad categories. There’s the tight, elegant stuff, full of careful point-generating races between players, logistic considerations, and probably a loan system, and then there’s the big messy sandbox stuff.

Casus Belli inhabits the latter category. More than inhabits; it embraces the role whole-heartedly. It isn’t even a little bit ashamed to be rolling around in the sandbox. What’s that sand-encrusted lump over there? Oh, don’t mind that. It’s just another potential building block. Stick it in the back of the dump truck and call it a pun.

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